Never Put Off Till Tomorrow

to have a job to do; to think smth can wait; to treat smth lightly; to be too sure of oneself; would rather; put off till a later date; not to be sensible on smb's part; to fail to realize; time is short; to spoil smth; rather annoying; to lose one's temper; to occur (to); nobody's fault but one's own; to be taught a good lesson; to know better next time; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today; ought to make smth a habit.

Where There is a Will There is a Way

a hard problem to solve; to be puzzled; to feel shaky about smth; to fear difficulties; to look as if; next to impossible; nearly; to lose one's head; to give up as hopeless; for a while; to be helpless; to occur (to); ought to; to take oneself in hand; to think calmly; to realize; after all; a sense of duty; a matter of principle; to do some hard thinking; to give close attention (to); to put off all doubts and fears; to exclude the pos­sibility of failure; to clear smth up; to be determined; to find a sensible solution; in this connection; nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

Ex. 40. Tell the story of the picture.

	to make inquiries; to hope that smth will turn up; to occur to smb; after all; to be included in the rent; a pigeon-house.
Most certainly you can have it! As to the price... well, that depends on whether you'll be using the ladder or not.

Ex. 41. Subjects for oral and written composition.

1. Give character-sketches of a) Larry; b) Mother.

2. Retell the story as if you were a) Mother; b) Larry; c) Gerald

3. Take the parts of Mother and Larry and enact the story.

4. Write up the episode in narrative form.

5. Write a letter describing the incident in short and expressing your own ideas in connection with it.

6. Try to imagine what life was like when Larry's friends came to stay with the Durrells.

7. Tell a humorous episode from the history of your family, or some­thing that you have read about.

8. Imagine that you have moved to another town, or another part of the country. Describe in detail the preparations and arrangements for the journey, the journey itself and your first impressions of the new place.

9. Tell a story to illustrate the proverb "Where there's a will there's a way."

Lesson Five

Text: Crabbe's Practice (after Conan Doyle¹)

Grammar: The Use of the Subjunctive Mood in Nominal Clauses

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